“Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.”

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.

A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see one. Christ could not possibly have been a Jew. It is not necessary to prove that scientifically – it is a fact. I do not need to prove this with science or scholarship. It is so!

A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.

A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity

Mozart didn’t need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

I’m looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.

Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.

He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.

A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation’s goods.

To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.

The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Solitude is sometimes the best society.

The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.